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"Chimera': DNA anomalies at Swarthmore
Cooking in the DNA kitchen
Is a little knowledge about DNA a dangerous thing? Chimera is a dizzyingly smart, awfully witty yet ultimately tragic play about a new medical phenomenon.
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Bruce Graham’s “Outgoing Tide” by PTC (3rd review)
What Bruce Graham doesn't know about Alzheimer's
To judge from The Outgoing Tide, Bruce Graham has mastered the basic elements of drama and comedy but not the subject of his play: Alzheimer's disease.
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Bruce Graham's "Outgoing Tide,' by PTC (2nd comment)
That ‘Better off dead' mindset, reconsidered
Bruce Graham's The Outgoing Tide buys into a widespread assumption: that people with Alzheimer's disease are better off dead. How and where can a dissenting theatergoer voice her objection?
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"One Man, Two Guvnors' on Broadway
Marvelous mayhem by the seaside
Richard Bean, a standup comic, has reached into the oldest traditions of theater to deliver a hybrid farce of the highest order. Just don't sit too close to the stage.
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Shakespeare Theatre's "Titus Andronicus' (1st review)
The Bard as Revenger
Titus Andronicus is early Shakespeare, more gore than glory, but still well worth seeing in Aaron Cromie's canny and inventive staging.
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"Tribes' and "4000 Miles' in New York
The sounds of thinking, feeling and listening
A rare spring season of compelling new work brings two gems to the New York stage, both revealing something new about what it really means to hear and to listen.
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Mauckingbird's "The Temperamentals'
The way we were (before we came out)
Where were you at the dawn of the gay liberation movement? Jon Marans's lyrical look back at the '50s made me ask that question for the first time.
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"Evita' and "End of the Rainbow' on Broadway
The tragedy of stardom, real and synthetic
Without Patti LuPone's complexity, Evita sinks to the level of caricature. By contrast, the flesh and blood Judy Garland breaks your heart.
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Gombrowicz's "Ivona' at Swarthmore
A princess with a problem
Witold Gombrowicz wrote with a sneering savagery, most of it directed at aristocrats and their sense of entitlement but also at the middle and lower classes who envied them. Swarthmore's production of Ivona wholeheartedly abandoned itself to his frenetic sense of absurdity.
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"Cyrano' at the Arden (2nd review)
The essential human misunderstanding
Cyrano de Bergerac is the only French play between the 17th and 20th Centuries to hold its place on the international stage. Michael Hollinger's pungent adaptation gets about as much of Edmond Rostand's epic conception as a modern audience can probably digest.
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